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Four Retreats and a Forum: A Meditation on Retreats as a Response to Change.
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Dobb, Linda S. – Library Trends, 1999
Describes four library retreats held by the Bowling Green State University library staff from 1995 to 1998. The retreats reflect changes in library work and management theory that have occurred. The importance of technology to library work is recognized, but there is also a growing realization of the importance of developing a flexible staff…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Higher Education, Information Technology
The Human Element in the Virtual Library.
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Saunders, Laverna M. – Library Trends, 1999
Introduces the concept of the virtual library and explores how the increasing reliance on computers and digital information has affected library users and staff. Discusses users' expectations, democratization of access, human issues, organizational change, technostress, ergonomics, assessment, and strategies for success and survival. Contains 35…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Information Technology, Library Personnel
Academic Library Fund-Raising: Organization, Process, and Politics.
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Martin, Susan K. – Library Trends, 2000
Discussion of fund-raising in academic libraries addresses issues of major gifts, capital campaigns, organization, staffing, constituency, and the role of the library development program within the academic community. Highlights include library administrator roles, goals, centralized versus decentralized development, and creating a major-gifts…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrator Role, Fund Raising, Higher Education
The Changing Library Environment.
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Martin, Murray S. – Library Trends, 1994
Discusses changes in libraries and the influence they have on library budgets. Highlights include reorganization in response to changes; automation, including document delivery in place of acquisitions; the library role; relationships with dealers and vendors; library materials, including the expansion of nonprint materials such as databases; and…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Databases, Library Acquisition, Library Administration
Twilight of the Gods? Bibliographers in the Electronic Age.
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Hazen, Dan – Library Trends, 2000
Examines bibliographers and collection development in terms of seven sometimes overlapping contexts in order to gauge how and why their roles have changed in the past and to speculate about the future. Dimensions examined include the system of scholarly communication; information marketplace; library and university as organization; technological…
Descriptors: Change, Futures (of Society), Information Industry, Information Technology
Staffing Rural Public Libraries: The Need to Invest in Intellectual Capital.
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Barron, Daniel D. – Library Trends, 1995
Discusses the need for adequate staffing in rural public libraries to meet expanded information needs. Topics include libraries' changing roles in the community to meet future information needs, the difference between training and education, and the development of distance education programs by library schools for professional continuing…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Futures (of Society), Information Needs, Library Education